Bug 1833775 - Not possible to create partition
Summary: Not possible to create partition
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: blivet-gui
Version: 32
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Vojtech Trefny
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-05-10 14:09 UTC by Vincent Nillson
Modified: 2021-05-25 16:13 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-05-25 16:13:53 UTC
Type: Bug
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2020-05-10 14:09 UTC, Vincent Nillson
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Description Vincent Nillson 2020-05-10 14:09:46 UTC
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I wanted to install Fedora32 on my laptop where I have already installed Windows and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is going to be removed
and instead Fedora32 should be installed.

The Windows partition with a data partition is going to be kept. But the Ubuntu partition need to be deleted. Following partition scheme:
/sda1 - boot partition of Windows, around 550MiB
/sda2 - windows partition
/sda3 - diag partition of windows
/sda4 - extended partition
  /sda5 - root partition of Ubuntu (ext4)
  /sda6 - swap partition
  /sda7 - home partition (ext4)
  /sda8 - data partition of windows (ntfs)

The mounpoint  of sda5 is set to "/" and partition sda7 is to be removed and then created because it should become an encrypted
partition. Re-creation fails. The partition can be removed but when added the partition (regardless if encryption is enabled or not) I always get the
error message that the device is too small for the format.

I have rather strange partition borders that seems not to be aligned to MiB/KiB borders.

Installing of Fedora is not possible is this state :-(.

Output of parted for the /dev/sda drive in unit Byte:

Number  Start          End            Size           Type      File system     Flags
 1      1048576B       576716799B     575668224B     primary   ntfs            boot
 2      576716800B     106539129343B  105962412544B  primary   ntfs
 3      106539515904B  107373133823B  833617920B     primary   ntfs            msftres
 4      107375229952B  500106788863B  392731558912B  extended
 5      107375230976B  132974231039B  25599000064B   logical   ext4
 6      132975165440B  138094313471B  5119148032B    logical   linux-swap(v1)
 7      138095362048B  240494051327B  102398689280B  logical   ext4
 8      240495099904B  500106788863B  259611688960B  logical   ntfs

Comment 1 Vendula Poncova 2020-05-11 14:59:18 UTC
From anaconda-tb:

anaconda 32.24.7 exception report
Traceback (most recent call first):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivetgui/osinstall.py", line 232, in _reraise_exception
    raise type(exception)(message + str(exception) + "\n" + traceback)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivetgui/blivetgui.py", line 502, in add_device
    self._reraise_exception(result.exception, result.traceback, message,
blivet.errors.DeviceError: Failed to add the device:device is too small for new format
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivetgui/blivet_utils.py", line 1236, in add_device
    self.storage.devicetree.actions.add(ac)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 53, in run_with_lock
    return m(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivet/actionlist.py", line 76, in add
    action.apply()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 53, in run_with_lock
    return m(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivet/deviceaction.py", line 607, in apply
    self.device.format = self._format
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 53, in run_with_lock
    return m(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivet/devices/storage.py", line 780, in <lambda>
    lambda d, f: d._set_format(f),
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivet/threads.py", line 53, in run_with_lock
    return m(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/blivet/devices/storage.py", line 739, in _set_format
    raise errors.DeviceError("device is too small for new format")
blivet.errors.DeviceError: device is too small for new format


Reassigning to Blivet-GUI.

Comment 2 Fedora Program Management 2021-04-29 16:25:09 UTC
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Comment 3 Ben Cotton 2021-05-25 16:13:53 UTC
Fedora 32 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2021-05-25. Fedora 32 is
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